The Pokémon Trading Card Game and Pokémon TCG Pocket have teamed up with McDonald’s to give away cards both in real life and the app.
As reported by PokéBeach, the Dragon Discovery event will be available in the U.S. from today, January 21, to February 24. It is also scheduled for Austria and New Zealand beginning sometime in January but no other countries (besides France where it’s already active) have been announced.
The Dragon Discovery event will see Happy Meals — dressed up as Charizard, Dragonite and Pikachu, Rayquazza, and Roaring Moon — give away a special four card booster pack containing one holographic card.
really hope i catch a Rayquaza wbu
order the Pokémon Happy Meal today and unlock Pokémon TCG Pocket rewards with the McD’s app 👀 pic.twitter.com/CMELZPniQo— McDonald’s (@McDonalds) January 21, 2025
There are 15 cards in the unique set. Pikachu, Miraidon, Koraidon, Hydreigon, Roaring Moon, Dragonite, and Drampa are holos, while Charizard, Jigglypuff, Hatena, Dragapult, Quagsire, Umbreon, Eevee, and Rayquazza are not. The Happy Meals also come with a double sided poster and stickers.
McDonald’s itself revealed on X/Twitter that those who order one of the Happy Meals through the official McDonald’s app will gain rewards in Pokémon TCG Pocket too: 24 Pack Hourglasses and 12 Wonder Hourglasses.
This means players can unlock two packs (which would cost $1 if paying for them otherwise) in the digital TCG and pick up a level one Wonder Pick too.
Pokémon has collaborated on myriad events like this in the past, some of which feature higher sought after cards than others. While McDonald’s cards will be, in the collector’s market, relatively low value, others such as the Van Gogh Museum collaboration have gone very wrong.
What was meant to be a charming event to encourage children to enjoy art instead turned into a scalper’s paradise and a fan’s worst nightmare. Those looking to resell a special trading card flooded the museum shop and caused so much chaos The Pokémon Company cancelled the collaboration altogther.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll talk about The Witcher all day.
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